<VV> Saving Corvairs (was " 6 EM in Baltimore scheduled to crush" among other things

[Eric Lucas]

Karl,

 

I agree with you. I have so many memories associated to Corvairs; my Dad, various bands I played in, etc. It hurts because a part of me wants to save everything! They are such very special cars. Alas, my realistic side says I must "let them go". I enjoy everything connected to my Corvair memories. Anything we can do to increase the opportunity for our fellow enthusiasts is a good thing IMHO.

Eric in Indiana
 

> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:44:08 -0400
> From: cityhawk at pobox.com
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> Saving Corvairs (was " 6 EM in Baltimore scheduled to crush" among other things
> 
> Thanks for the sarcasm, Bob. ;-)
> 
> Anyway, I was just thinking out loud. I know that there are more 
> marginal Corvairs than there are people willing to save them. However, 
> it seems that every time a group of Corvairs comes along that is about 
> to be crushed, at the 11th hour someone chimes in about how they wish 
> they knew about them sooner. And that's just on this list, which doesn't 
> get to all in the Corvair world. The same is true in the Corvair Center 
> Forum. I was just wondering whether some kind of unified way of 
> publishing the list of Corvairs for imminent demise could be made easily 
> accessible to the widest number of Corvair people... and if nobody wants 
> them, well then, there's nothing we can do about that.
> 
> It's just a shame that if someone does want one or some of the death row 
> Corvairs, or some parts from one of the cars that they don't know about 
> them until it's too late. I consider it a reasonable goal to try to save 
> as many viable Corvairs as possible if there are people who might want 
> them (or at least parts from them) before they get crushed. Once they're 
> crushed, we lose those Corvairs and their parts forever. To the cynics 
> and naysayers here, if any of these cars and/or their parts have no 
> value to anyone in the Corvair community, then so be it, but at least we 
> gave them all a good shot.
> 
> I can float it by the board to see if anyone else has any interest in 
> this, but it may just be that I'm only the voice of one idealist in the 
> wilderness. But I'd like to try.
> 
> Karl Haakonsen
> CORSA Board of Directors, Eastern Director, Boston
> Bay State Corvairs
> Stock Corvair Group Corvanatics
> 
> 1966 Monza Convertible 110/PG project car
> 
> 
> On 10/22/2013 9:57 AM, Vairtec Corporation wrote:
> > On 10/22/2013 2:40 AM, Karl Haakonsen (cityhawk at pobox.com) wrote:
> >> it would be nice if we (the larger Corvair community) could have a system of alerting everyone about the existence of such a find before it's too late. Any ideas among VV how we might best do that?
> > Maybe we could form a nationwide organization, and give it a nice
> > user-friendly web site with a home page with prominently-featured news
> > and announcements and an active online community. Information like this
> > could be posted there for all to see.
> >
> > In addition to placing news and updates on the web page we could allow
> > persons to opt-in to receiving email updates. Heck, we could even
> > publish a periodic print magazine for features that are not time-sensitive.
> >
> > We could call it the "Corvair Society of America," or CORSA for short.
> > Oh... wait... that name's already taken... by some group with an
> > inscrutable web site, an inability to post fresh content, and a
> > congenital resistance to change.
> >
> >
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